Improvement in milk-coolers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES L. BACHELLER AND SANFORD P. BACHELLER, OF CANTON, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN 'MILK-COOLERS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,640, dated June 17, 1879 application filed M arch 15,1879.

provement in' Milk-Coolers, of which the following is a specification.

' Figure 1 is a top view of our improved milk pan and cooler. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of the same, taken through the line x, Figzl, a portion only of the pipe D being in section.

Similar lett-ers of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved milk pan and cooler for use in creameries and other places for holding and cooling milk, which shall be simple in construction and convenient and effective in use, being easily cleaned, and cooling the milk evenly and quickly.

The invention consists in the combination of the three concentric pans provided with the connecting pipe or pipes, the waste-pipe, the water-discharge faucet, and the milk-discharge pipe or faucet, as hereinafter fully described.

A is the milk-pan, in the center of which is a small pan, B. The pan A is surrounded with a third pan, C, so that the cooler consists of three concentric pans.

The outer pan, C, need not extend quite to the bottom of the pan A, or all the pans may be of the same depth, as may be desired.

allowed'to flow into one or the other of the pans B C.

With a hole in the Vbottom of the pan A communicates a pipe, Gr, closed with a plug` or4 faucet for convenience in drawing 0E the milk when desired. The pan rests upon a support formed of four (more or less) radial bars, H, meeting` and secured to each other at the center.

To the lower side of the middle part of the support H is attached a disk, I, having a pivot, J, attached to the center of its lower side, to ent-er and turn in a hole in the center of a disk or plate, K, attached to the bench or stand L. The lowerplate, K, has a flange around its edge to form a seat for the plate l.

With this construction the pau can be easily turned so as to bring every part of it within convenient reach of the operator, so that he can, readilyskim the milk and clean the pau.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The herein-described inilkcooler, consisting of the three concentric pans A-B C, provided with the pipes D, communicating with the pans B C, the waste-pipe G, the water-discharge fau eet F, and the milk-discharge pipe Gr, all con structed and arranged substantially as shown and described.

CHARLES LORIN BACHELLER.

SANFORD PAUL BACHELLER. Nitnessesz f L. ALDRICH,

R. C. Voss,

HORACE SMITH,

H. D. ELLsvwoR'rH. 

